Making trade more difficult....
The latest pro Brexit campaign from the Government is a graphic describing the huge number and value of new trade deals that Global Britain has signed. It, of course, fails to mention that the vast majority of those deals cover trade with the EU, the EEA and EFTA, which are far, far worse than the previous ones.
We are now even hearing claims that because the UK’s trade with the EU is declining this is a sign that Brexit was right. This is rather like a company director who hates the Scottish people making it more expensive and difficult for them to buy his company’s products and then boasting to the board that the falling percentage of sales in Scotland is a sign of why he was right to make business there more difficult.
It is also well worth remembering that the Government has yet to introduce many of the checks and taxes on trade with the EU that it is committed to do under the terms of the agreement.
So we can expect ever greater success as trade with the EU declines further.
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